An accused terrorist and top adviser to Osama bin Laden is again asking a judge to ease his prison conditions, sources said.

Mamdouh Salim, identified by the feds as a key al Qaeda lieutenant until his arrest several years ago, has asked Manhattan federal Judge Deborah Batts to make prison officials lighten up on him.

Salim is set to go on trial in April on charges he stabbed prison officer Louis Pepe in the eye with a homemade knife carved out of a plastic comb.

The weapon pierced Pepe’s brain and nearly killed him.

Salim now wants Batts to order prison officials to uncuff him when he’s meeting with his lawyer.Even when he is in court, Salim is kept restrained in cuffs and leg manacles.

Salim faces life without parole if convicted of the attack on Pepe, who is still partially paralyzed.Salim allegedly attacked Pepe in 2000 while being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center awaiting trial for his role in the plot to blow up U.S. embassies in Africa.